Joel 1:5

5 ¡Despierten, borrachos, y lloren!Giman, todos los entregados al vino,porque el vino dulce les fue arrebatado de los labios.

Joel 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:5

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep: and howl, all ye drinkers of
wine
Who are used to neither, either to awake or to howl, being very prone to drowsiness upon their drinking bouts, and to mirth and jollity in them; but now should be awake, and sober enough, not as being a virtue in them, but through want of wine; and for the same reason should howl, as follows: because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth;
the locusts having spoiled the vines and eaten the grapes, no new wine could be made, and so none could be brought in cups to their mouths; nor they drink it in bowls, as they had used to do; and which, being sweet and grateful to their taste, they were wont to drink in great abundance, till they were inebriated with it; but now there was a scarcity, their lips were dry, but not their eyes. The word, Kimchi says, signifies all liquor which is squeezed by bruising or treading.

Joel 1:5 In-Context

3 Cuéntenselo a sus hijos,y que ellos se lo cuenten a los suyos,y estos a la siguiente generación.

4 Lo que dejaron las langostas grandeslo devoraron las langostas pequeñas;lo que dejaron las langostas pequeñasse lo comieron las larvas;y lo que dejaron las larvasse lo comieron las orugas.

5 ¡Despierten, borrachos, y lloren!Giman, todos los entregados al vino,porque el vino dulce les fue arrebatado de los labios.

6 Una nación poderosa e innumerableha invadido mi país:tiene dientes de león,colmillos de leona.

7 Asoló mis vides,desgajó mis higueras.Las peló hasta dejar blancas sus ramas;¡las derribó por completo!